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Difficulties of a i:
Scientist
He Narrowly Escapes
Hanging
By F. A. MITCHEL
Professor Dlbbley w»s In his room in
University liaM examining some theses
of students on the antiquity of man
when a sweep entered and deposited a
box. When it was opened It was
found to contain a lawbone and a let
ter.
Professor Dlbbley dropped the letter
and snatched up the bone.
“Thank heaven, the teeth are pre
served!” he remarked as, he flashed* his
eyes on them, and, taking up a, mi
eroscope, he brought It to bear on
fcvery tooth, every protrusion of the
June.
* There was a knock at the door—
several knocks before a h « professor
heard any of them, so intent was he
on his treasure. Finally he bade the
knocker enter. Professor , Hollister
“Hollistef,” cried Dlbbley excitedly,
“whet do you suppose Bowers has sent
us? The Jaw of a prehistoric man.
They’ve struck one of those caves that
abound in Europe and have added
one Jawbone-tbe first discovered in
Amertcft—to the world’s collection of
relics of the men of the old stone
“What race?”
“Very like the Neanderthal.”
“How do you know?”
“By the teeth. They are all in place.”
“Let me see, where do you archfteo*
logic gentlemen place the Neanderthal
man?”
“He flourished at least 25,000 years
ago; probably further'back than that.”
“You’ll have to go out there and ex
amine the cavfi yourself. We must re
port the matter at once.”
“There are explicit directions as to
the location of the cave,” replied Plb-
bley. taking up another paper which
he had not noticed* , ~ ~ ~
Professor Dlbbley reported the find
and the same evening, was on a train
speeding westward. So long as he
was in a car under the care of the con
ductor and the porter, with a dining
car next forward from \vhich draw
food, the.professor was all right. He
was ro engror^ed In bones and stones
—the-atudents called him Archie, which'
they considered an abbreviation of
archaeologist- that lie was utterly deft-'
dent of the common affairs of life. A
facetious sophomore asserted that he
must he of the canine species himself,
he was so addicted to bones. But
when Professor Dlbbley was put out
of the train in the Rocky mountains to
shift for himself he was like a child
who had not learned to walk. There
were a few houses near the station,
and liefore one of them a horse, sad
dled and bridled, stood without a mas
ter. A rough looking man came along,
nml the professor asked him if the
horse could lie hired. The man gave
him a glaio e such ns a cat would give
a mouse and assured him that it could.
A brief Interview followed, at the end
of which Dlbbley gave the man $f» and
took the horse on which to ride to the
cave.
• TIk* professor mounted the beast
with dillleulty and set out on a jog
trot, slopping occasionally to hold hi>
directions up against his glasses. He
had dillieulty in following them. and.
meeting a girl of the country nrounied
on a mule, he appealed to her for inlor
matiou. An interview ended in her
oflfering to show him Hie wav.
"What y’ goln’ that* Tor?” she asked.
“That ca\e,” said the professor, in
the beginning reiinqiihering that he
was talking to Ignoram e. but soon for
getting jf. “contains the bones of a
man of great antiquity, at least “."i.tHHi
year'-.” •
“That beats the old feller in the Hi
hie. don't it
“Sc\erM! races oupied-Kuroj » sue
cc si\ el\c’’ reniinind the |fol.essor,
• “'-i tee of them being hundreds of thou,
sands »u years'’ -
“Lcid, sa\e usl What kind of lookin'
things was the\
“Soinetlung like r.n ape. small facial
-angle, heavy protrusions over the
eyes. Hut the latest race of men w'ho
lived in the stone age were not so un
like modern civilized men as might’he
supposed.”
“How old was they?”
, “They are placed by archaeologists
at 10.000 to lo.OOO years.”
“(Jeewlllikins! Was the W’enien that
old too?”
“Of course.”
The girl looked sidewise at the pro
fessor pityingly. She wondered how
a person with an upset brain had been
permitted to get off by himself to talk
about people thousands of years old.
Presently there was a sound of horse’s
boofs galloping behind them. The girl
turned and saw a horseman coming
lickety split. When he reached, the
two wayfarers he reined in. They
heard an ominous click and the words
“Hands up!”' The professor turned
and looked at a ferocious party cover
ing * him with-an immeijse revolver.
The girl spurred her horse between the
professor and his enemy and made-
signs to the latter to desist from shoot
ing the former, who didn’t f know
enough to put up1i| s hands w hen told
to do so. \
“What is it. Mart?” stoid the girl.
“What is it? Why, il^g tuck my
horse.”
She applied to the professor, who
explained that he had hired the horse
from its owner;
‘That story don’t gd down nohow/*
•aid the man. “Ypu’re on my horse.,
stranger. This Is the fifth., case p*
boss stealln* in these yere parts In the
la£t three weeks. Now we’ve $ot on
to who’s doin’ it there'll be no mbre
of it. Reckon you’ll danre whar the
grass is too short." : , )
; The girl cast a glance at the pro
fessor, who had not the faintest con
ception of what‘they all meant, then
a meaning glance at his captor, tap
ping her bead w:tth. her finger. Indicat
ing that the horse thief was not In his
right mind. Then, riding up to Mart,
ns she called him, she said in a low
voice, not to be heard4)y Dlbbley:
“He’s goln’ to Hutton’s cave, be
says, to hunt for the bones o’ people
thousand o’ years old. That’s evidence
enough that he’d went daft.”
Mart concluded to ask the profesfor
a few questions himself:
“What ye expect to find in the cave?”
“A treasure worth more than millions
of dollars.”
“What kind of a treasure?”
T “The bones of a man who lived when
the plains down there were .covered
by an ocean.”
‘That’ll do, Sal,” said the int&rrog^
ator to the girl. “I don’t, want to
hear any more But we can’t let a
feller like that go browsin’ about by
hisself. Comer, my Mend,” to the pro
fessor. “You’ll have to go. back with
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“I can’t do-lhat,” replied Dlbbley.
“I’ve come all the way from * New
England to examine this find, and I
beg of you not to interfere with me.
I dldn’i£ know the h^rse was yours.”
Dlbbley begged so hard that Sal set
about persuading his captor to let him
go to the cave, which was but a mile
distant.
“Y* got to humor them lunatics,” she
said ashfe-ttr Mail. “If yon flflnT
they’re liable to hurt thelrselves.”
Mart yielded to please her, and the
three went on to the cave. The escorts
watched to see what Dlbbley would do.
Dlbbley bad brought some digging
.utensils with him and l>egaii to make
a hole In the floor of the cave. Remov
ing sumo earth, ho-picked-out fllntsr
The watchers, supposing tliem to be
stones and seeing the professor put
th^m carefully In a bag, saw confirma
tion of their theory tliat he was crazy.
-BuJildesr tW e*f^r*tor ~wirH“ ^
talking to himself, using the , words
neolithic, paleolithic and such qther
unintelligible names.
What the professor discovered or
what he might have discovered’is not
to be definitely deHcril>ed, for the pa
tience of the two lookers on was soon
exhausted, and they concluded that he
should be confined In a place where he
would do neither himself nor any one
else harm. They compelled him to
leave his work and return with them
to the place where he had paid a man
$."> for the use of another man’s horse.
Unfortunately persons who had re
cently lost horses w'ere waiting Mart’s
return, and they xvere not prepared for
the line of defense the professor’s at
tendants were about to give them.
An angry knot of men were talking
,be open for the collection of taxes for
the fiscal year 1916, from Oct. 15,1916
to March 15, 19f?7tnclusive. A penal
ty of olie per cent will be added Janu-
ary 1st, 1917. Pebrtfflry
When the party
ed the station there were frantic cries
of “Hang him!” “Shoot him!” “Kill
him:” mingled with uncomplimentary
remarks. Mart, who had become con-
vliu od of DlhbloyN Insanity, attempted
to nrgno with' the crowd, but failed.
They all said that, having recovered
ills own’ horse, he was inclined to for
give the crime that had deprived oth
ers of their horses.
Meanwhile tho professor had come
do\yn from the age of primitive man to.4-famcls.'t
his own tragic situation and was trein- j Fairfax.
Good for the Ailments of
Horses, Mules, Cattle, Etc.
Good for your own Aches,
Pains, Rheumatism
Cuts, Burns, Etc. ^ .
25c. 50c. $1. At all Dealers.
Treasurer’s Notice.
The tax books for the collection of
State t County and School taxes wilt
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tal of 2 j)er cent for February. March
1st five per cent will be added, making
a total of seven percent from March
1st to March 15th, 1917, at which date
the books will, close’. _
The tax levy will' be: V
For State purposes-.6% mills.
For ordinary ' county pur- %
poses....-' mills,
For constitutional school. \L
tax —— 3 mills.
Total levy.... .'l._18% mills
..Special school levies are as follows:
Two mill tax: Ashleigh, Baldock,
Mdyris, Meyer's Mill, Barbary Branch,
Cedar Grove, Columbia, Edisto, Ellen-
tdn, F’riendship, Green's, Sycamore
No. 3, New Forest, Oak Grove, River
Side, Sand Hill, Seiglingville, Seven
Pines, Tinker’s Creek and Long
Branch. . ' ‘
.... , Three mill taxT Qsrton^ Tnjnailliig
nhout the loss of their horses when the dale. Cave, Hickory Hill, Owens CrpOT
captive was seen coming, between. Roads. Shady Grove ri -lInper RietrLanfft^
Mart and Sal. When the party reach- Four mill tax: Appleton, Big Fork-
Sycamore No. 51, Double Pond* Heal
ing Springs, Hercules, Hilda, Lees,
Rosemary, Ulmer, Reedy Branch, Mt.
Calvary.
Five mill taxr Elko. (Two mills
ordinary pdrpose's,‘three mills bofids.)
Six mills tax: Kline. Two mills or
dinary purposes, four mills bonds*)
Seven 1 ftiills . tax: Dunbarton!
(Four-mills ordinary purposes, three
mills bond.) —
Eight mills tax: Blackville. (Five
mills ordinary purposes, three mills
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(5H mills ordinary pur-
cheap for this year, or will sell said tract
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on reasonable terms.
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Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
Ming like a leaf. Then Sal rose to the ! poses, rpills bonds.)
oecaslcn and proved that a woman
may he a \ aliialde legal advocate.
“Men,” she said, arguing from the
rostrum of a horse’s back, sitting
straddle, “ef you’d ’a’ seen and heard
what we seen and heard you’d be con-
vlneifl of r tlds yere little feller’s Inno
cence. lie’s as crazy as a loon. He
said while he was talkin’ that we was
all the sons aud darters of monkeys;
that there was times when everything
was covered with Ice; runnlfWike wa
ter; that kaitgeroos was cavortin’ j
around bigger’n any house In tills ycre>
place; that sometimes tlu* sea was [
a splashln’ agin Taljle mountain; that j
th«'ro was men on earth before the In- j
jins, lie went into Hutton’s cave and ,
was a-dlggin’ there, tlirowin’ uj\ dirty j
stones apd putMn’ ’em lir bis bug, ’s Ifi
they was silver. spoons. If them,
tilings don’t prove him crazy there’s
nobody crazy, and they’d better tear ,
down the madhouses.”
* “How about his stealin’ Mart’s
horse?” calk'd a voice. \
“I’ll tell you; he’s not.only, a lunatic. •
but a fool. He got tnk in by some un |
that he give a fiver to fur the. use 6’ r
Mart’s horse to go to the cave to hunt
for the bones of a* than So,000 years
old.” 1 ' v |
“I’m the party •as tuk his fiver,” said
a man. “1 k no wed bhu for a tender
foot right off, but I didn’t think he was
so soft as to pay mo for ridln’ Mart’s
horse. Here. Mart, take yer money.”
This addendum to Sal’s si>eech
convinced the crowd that the stran
ger was not ouly mad, but half witted,
and their anger was tunied'To sympa
thy. W hen the next train passed, go
ing east, they put the lunatic on it in
charge of the conductor with Instruc
tions to turn him over to the authori
ties at the terminal.
. Before reaching It the professor had
convinced the conductor that he was
sane. But his narrow escape from
hanging deterred hinf fronU going
back.
Later It was determined by a con
clave of scientists that the jawbone, of
a Neanderthal man had belonged to a j
negro. v
Eight and one-half mills^taxL. Al
lendale. (Six mills for ordinary pur
poses, 2 1 /a mills for bonds.)
Nine mills tax: Williston. (Five
mills ordinary purposes, four mills
for bonds.
Ten and one-hhlf m^ls tax: Barn
well. 4 ,(Six mills Tor ordinary pur
poses, foUe and one^half mills for
bonds.) " ■ ; v j
J. B. . ARMSTRONG,
County Treasurer. ■
- Barnwell, S. C., Oct. 2, 1916.
GttarAalD^^^GanootBeOm^ ^“^!j^ 1 ® n a “y r | 0 25 -
H ijda—January 31, ~
Only personal property
by local application!, &c they cannot'reach
th* dloeated -*ortion of the ear." There
l! only one ^/y to cure catarrh&l deafnets,
and that !• by a conatltutlonal remedy.
('Otarrhal Deaf ness Is caused by an In
flamed condition of the mucoua lining of
the Eustachian Tube. When'this tube it
Inflamed, you have a rumbling sound or
Imperfect hearing, and Vhen it la entirely
closed, Deafness Is the result Unleag the,
Inflammation can be reduced and this tube
restored to Itg normal condition, hearing
will be destroyed forever. Many cases Of
deafness are caused by catarrh, which la
an inflamed 'condition of the mucous sur
faces. HslTs Catfurrh Cure acta thru the
blood on the mucous aurfaces of jthe sys
tem. ■ ■ '
We will give One Hundred Dollars for
any cage of Catarrhal Deafness that-eannot
be cured^by^HalTi Catarrh CurA^Clreulars ^
' A P. J.^CHBNET^i CO.. Toledo. O.
All persons indebted to the estate
of Eliza Cain, deceased, are hereby
requested to make prompt payment of
such indebtedness to the undersigned
and all persons, having claims against
the said estate will please present
same propeHy attested to me. ,
H. H. Martin, Executor.
Blackville, S. C. t Dec. 19, 1916.
^Auditor's Appointments for 1917/
Snelling—January 2.
Dunbarton—January 3.
Robbins—January 4.
Millette—January 5.
Baldoc—January 8.
Appleton—.January 9.
Barton-rJTanuary 10.
.Fairfax^-January 11.
Allendale—January 12.
Blackville—January 16.' *■
Elko—January 17.
Willfston—-January 18, ’ M
Mercatus—January 19. * , ; .
Sycamore—January 23r : • :
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: 50 per cent penalty will be added
after Feb. % 20th. ~
- R.W. RILEY, -
County Auditor.
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easiest kind of an account you ever
triepl to open. All you have to do is
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. thousand dollars or from that on down
to— . That’s all. The man will
do the rest. And after you have open
ed the account, you will take just as
much pleasure in watching it grow
as we-do. You will add to it almost
' unknowingly. Try jt and be convinced^
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